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0f LUFFLER. GIGAR ORYGIGAREYTTE HOLDER FOR BLOWING SMOKE RINGS. No. 590,684. Patented Sept. 28,1897.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CARL LoFFLER, OF'STUTTGART, GERMANY.

CIGAR OR CIGARETTE HOLDER FOR BLOWING-SMOKE RINGS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart Of Letters Patent NO. 590,684, dated September 28, 1897.

I Application filed September 22, 1896- Serial No. 606,660. (Model) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL LoFFLER, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at Stuttgart, Kingdom of \Viirtemberg, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Cigar or Cigarette Holders for Blowing Smoke Rings, of which the following is a full and clear specification.

My invention relates to an improved cigar or cigarette holder intended for forming rings or wreaths of smoke, the essential feature of said holder being that the same can easily be put asunder in such a way that a cleaning of same can be effected in a mostcomplete and perfect way.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional view of the invention. Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5, and (5 are views of valve-disks. Fig. 7

. is a plan view of the valve-disk and conical plate, and Fig. 8 is an edge view of Fig. 7.

In the drawings the stem 60, provided with 'an opening going through its whole length, is of ordinary form, excepting that it has a socket to receive the cigar at d, said socket projecting laterally therefrom and at a slight inclination away from the mouthpiece. At the free end of the holder, adjacent to the cigar-socket, a hollow deviceb is arranged in an enlarged part of a, so as to have its end seated removably within the free end of the holder. This holder has a shoulder or seat a between this hollow device and the cigarsocket d, and upon this seat avalve-disk c is arranged. Over this valve-disk a plate I) is placed, this plate being located at the extreme inner end of the hollow device I). Said plate is of substantiallyconical form and has a central opening and curved edges which extend over the ends of the valve-disk c, as shown in Figs. 7 and 8. The hollow device I) has an enlarged middle part and a contracted free end which, acting with the valve and the body portion of the device, forms the puffs into ring shape. This action of the hollow device is easy to be understood if one takes in consideration thatthe hollow device I) is shaped exactly in accordance with the form which the hollow room of the mouth, together with the lips, takes when a person exhales smoke in form of-rings or wreaths.

In operation the smoker places the lighted cigar in the cigar-socket d, and upon inhaling the smoke is drawn in through the mouthpiece, as the suction caused by the inhaling -will seat the valve upon the shoulder a and thus cut off the interior of the mouthpiece, and consequently the socket cl, from the hollow device I), preventing at the same time the inlet of air to the mouthpiece from the hollow device.' Upon exhaling the smoke the valvedisk leaves its seat and the smoke finds its way through the small openings left between the valve and the conical plate into the hollow device, and it is finally discharged at the reduced end b so that it will assume ring form.

I do not wish to limit myself to the particular form of valve-disk shown in Figs. 7 and S, as other forms may be used, as shown in Figs. 2 to 6.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A cigar or cigarette holder for forming rings or wreaths of smoke comprising the stem a provided with an aperture going through its whole length, said aperture being enlarged at the end opposite the mouthpiece, the conical socket cl projecting laterally therefrom to receive the cigar or cigarette, the hollow device I) provided with an enlarged middle part and a contracted free end, said hollow device I; which is to be inserted within the enlarged part of the opening of stem a, being provided at the part to be inserted in stem at with a .conical inwardly-bent projection 12, and the freely-movable valve-disk 0 located between the shoulder a of stem at and the projection Z) substantially as described and for the purpose. specified.

Signed at Stuttgart this 25th day of August, 1896.

. CARL LOFFLER.

Witnesses:

HAN. KoHLnR, Go'rrLoB KEIM. 

